Working from the shadows of the Young Echo crew, ringleader Amos Childs and emcee Alex Rendall step into the light as Jabu. Heavily influenced by early U.S. East Coast hip-hop and British underground music, Young Echo's hip-hop branch present their first full release, Kwaidan, on RAMP Recordings.

Ramp welcomes Birmingham-based Filter Dread into their warm bosom. "A lot of my inspiration comes from early rave productions and the quick and unapologetic techniques that were used to make tracks. Short sampling space, limited save functions and other restrictions lead to music that I find to be very pure, energetic and creative." With a digital-only single on Visionist's Lost Codes, and the FACT-championed Space Loops cassette under his belt, Ramp would like you to acquaint yourself with the kaleidoscopic grime of the MIDI Space EP.

Known to his mother as Yemi, Blacksmif grew up in South London and was surrounded by jazz, R&B and gospel from a young age. Moving onto garage, drum & bass and dubstep through his adolescence, he manages to shoehorn all of these influences into his music. "My Own Blood" sees the young producer make his vocal debut over a minimal house beat, with percussion reaching a crescendo, then falling away -- underpinning his stark vocal about his relationship with his brother.

Following from 2012's critically-lauded album TIMETIMETIME&TIME, Kansas-based experimental producer and sonic auteur YYU (pronounced: "why why you") releases his first 12" single for UK-based powerhouse Ramp. Advancing on his home-spun sound that sees the producer utilizing field recordings of live instrumentation and heavily-effected, pitch-shifting vocal refrains -- occasionally sounding like James Blake making garage rock -- alongside modern, hip-hop leaning production techniques. The title-track features chopped-up room ambience, tiny snippets of vocal utterances and snatches of noise filling out the focused, minimal sound. The flip features an emotionally-charged folk song about time and death.

Ramp are ecstatic to announce Nochexxx's debut album Thrusters. Beginning his career in 2010 with "Smashing Your System," featuring Jungle BrotherSensational on Werk Discs, and Ritalin Love/Timepiece for RAMP, NCHX has kept his discography lean. Keeping his head out of the scene, NCHX has built a castle of delirious arpeggiators and intertwining bass lines which recollect the rich synthesized lexicon of Drexciya and the prismatic glory years of Zomby. Thoroughly funky and profoundly nasty, Thrusters is a producer pushing himself to the next level, generating a kaleidoscope of sound that is all his own.

Ramp is proud to welcome Visionist into its esteemed halls. Appearing on the scene in 2011, new school grime producer Visionist has a dark, stripped-down, emotive sound that has won fans from Oneman, Benji B, Kode 9, and Pearson Sound to fellow Ramp artist Zomby. Visionist arrives on Ramp with "M" and "Secrets."

Leader of the new wave of Belgian artists; Cupp Cave unleashes his first set of tracks since 2012's mini-album Retina Waves. NVMB is more focused and dancefloor-friendly than his previous release. Cupp Cave is currently putting the finishing touches to his debut album, due on RAMP in 2014.

Young Echo formed and broadcasted their first radio show in 2010. Its members met growing up in and around Bristol, and became close through a shared enthusiasm for electronic music. Young Echo counts Kahn, Vessel, Jabu, El Kid, Zhou, Ishan Sound, Killing Sound, Gorgon Sound, REI, and Baba Yaga members of the collective. Launch-pad for the careers of Zomby, SBTRKT, and many others, RAMP is very proud to announce Young Echo's debut album Nexus. Unmistakably from Bristol, the group would be hard-pushed to avoid comparisons with Portishead and Massive Attack. While sharing sonics with the former, and the gang mentality of the latter, Young Echo update the Bristol Sound with the collective knowledge of dubstep, grime, techno, and garage.

Double LP version. Young Echo formed and broadcasted their first radio show in 2010. Its members met growing up in and around Bristol, and became close through a shared enthusiasm for electronic music. Young Echo counts Kahn, Vessel, Jabu, El Kid, Zhou, Ishan Sound, Killing Sound, Gorgon Sound, REI, and Baba Yaga members of the collective. Launch-pad for the careers of Zomby, SBTRKT, and many others, RAMP is very proud to announce Young Echo's debut album Nexus. Unmistakably from Bristol, the group would be hard-pushed to avoid comparisons with Portishead and Massive Attack. While sharing sonics with the former, and the gang mentality of the latter, Young Echo update the Bristol Sound with the collective knowledge of dubstep, grime, techno, and garage.